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America, Meet Your Poets!

30 Tuesday Jul 2013

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What we have here, it seems, is a failure to communicate. America has a thousands-strong class of recent university graduates whose degrees are in writing, who are presently without any gainful employment directly associated with their field, and who are intimately familiar not only with contemporary poetry but also with the communities and institutions working poets spend much of their time in, and yet few in the media seem willing to tap them as a resource.

Read the article at The Huffington Post

Book Contest Through Permafrost

26 Friday Jul 2013

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Caitlin Scarano, winner of the Pangaea Prize and Editor of Permafrost, says: Send me your Manuscript for Permafrost’s first annual book contest. 

This Reminds Us: TPB Now Taking Submissions for The Atlantis Award ; Pangaea Prize Winner Posted

20 Saturday Jul 2013

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First mentioned in two dialogues (Timaeus and Critias) by Plato in 360 BC, the legendary island of Atlantis has long been sought by historians, archaeologists, and explorers alike. Said to have originally existed between South America and Africa, this sunken island has been searched for in no less than dozens of locations worldwide, from Bimini to the Black Sea.

In a new twist, a team of scientists from Brazil and Japan say they have discovered their version of Atlantis, or at least an ancient piece of granite that was part of a continent that disappeared nearly a hundred million years ago when Africa and South America separated.

Read the Article at Redorbit

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Winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize

20 Saturday Jul 2013

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The Poets Billow is happy to announce the winner of the 2013 Pangaea Prize. Here is an except from Caitlin Scarano’s Entry. Visit our Literary Art Gallery to read seven of her finally crafted poems. 

Losing It

God came to me like a drunken man
running from a car accident. God came

at me with a mouth full of snow, blood
& broken teeth. I used to be alone.

I used to wake up without an arm across my neck.
No boys or gods licking the sole of my shoe

or testing the rope ladder hooked in my lower lip.
Sinning is storytelling –

you always look them in the eye. Your body
always betrays you. God came to me

like the accident itself. No, he came at me like the tree
that parted the car, or the girl that parted

the windshield. The only car accident I was ever in
was the night I lost my virginity in the backseat.

God wasn’t there.
Just a frightened, frightened boy.

Read more by Caitlin Scarano

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POETRY REPORT: ZIMMERMAN VERDICT

18 Thursday Jul 2013

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The ever-entertaining poet Scott Poole reports the news through poetry.

GEORGE ZIMMERMAN DRIVES HOME, BUT HIS CAR DIES…

Read the poem at Nailed Magazine

Alanis Morissette’s song “Ironic” Remade to Actually be Ironic

17 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Alanis Morissette’s 1996 hit “Ironic,” a catchy song that doubles as a true/false quiz for every middle school English teacher in America, is finally ironic.

 

Sisters Eliza and Rachael Hurwitz have righted all of Morissette’s wrongs in a cover called “It’s Finally Ironic,” with lyrics like “He won the lottery, and died the next day/from a severe paper cut from his lottery ticket/It’s a black fly in your chardonnay/that was specifically purchased to repel black flies.”

Check it out at Salon!

 

Poet El Jones on Violence Against Women

16 Tuesday Jul 2013

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El Jones, poet laureate of Halifax and Women’s Studies professor at Acadia University, joins Jian to express a more nuanced take on the controversy that has erupted around a planned Chris Brown concert in the Halifax area.

The Dartmouth, N.S. show is set to feature controversial R&B singer Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty to assaulting his girlfriend, pop star Rihanna, in 2009.

Check out the radio interview on the show Q with Jian Ghomenshi

Michelle Bonczek’s New Poem in Orion Magazine

10 Wednesday Jul 2013

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Check out the current beautiful issue of Orion Magazine to read a new poem by Michelle Bonczek, as well as an essay by Barry Lopez, and an article by environmental activist Bill McKibben.

“Advection, Nova Scotia”

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The Best Defense Ever for Breastfeeding in Public: A Poem

09 Tuesday Jul 2013

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We’ve heard a lot of thoughtful, impassioned arguments from moms who have to defend their rights to breastfeed in public, but we’ve never come across anything quite as powerful as this.

Hollie McNish, a published U.K. poet and spoken word artist, posted this video entitled “Embarrassed” on YouTube on July 4, that slowly but surely became a viral sensation.

Check it out: Embarrassed

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The Humanities are Not in Decline According to the Numbers

02 Tuesday Jul 2013

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Recently, Nate Silver, the statistician who has become famous for the accuracy of his analyses of polling data, has weighed in on the inexorable decline of the humanities, and has found, using “numbers” and “arithmetic,” that “the relative decline of majors like English is modest when accounting for the increased propensity of Americans to go to college.”

“In fact, the number of new degrees in English is fairly similar to what it has been for most of the last 20 years as a share of the college-age population,” Silver said.

Read the article, see the numbers at The Chronicle of Higher Education.

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